Because we have such an incredible local paddling community, the Yeti Lean Against the Wind video really struck me. And it is free to watch on YouTube. This slice-of-life story is about open ocean world champion outrigger canoe paddler and Olympic kayaker Lauren Spalding. “I know my distances and the pain that is going to come with the distance and you kind of just embrace it and push through it, on a good day,” she says.
Community events with a social and environmental cause take on new meaning in a country awash with corruption, gangsterism, violence, official stasis and ineptitude.
The families of two athletes who died taking part in the Washie 100-miler from Cathcart to East London said they were in disbelief at the double tragedy.
A phone call received during the week from former Buffs runner Donald Underwood sparked by the publication of my piece on the 1983 Buffs dual between Gordon Shaw and Bruce Fordyce opened the proverbial subject of “what if?”